> Plagiarism hurts the scientist being plagiarized because their work is being passed of as someone else's work. Indeed they would be hurt. If your research is

> Plagiarism hurts the scientist being plagiarized because their work is being passed of as someone else's work. Indeed they would be hurt. If your research is only in the paid for journals, then you would get screwed. I just don't think this is a bad thing. The only people harmed would be the journal and the scientist who chose to lock up his research behind a paywall. It sounds like a win to me to screw over people who lock up their research.